#profound

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past. ↗

— Lama Surya Das

#profound #forgiveness

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#day #discipline #emotion #every #every day

I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#hell #profound #death

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary. ↗

— Craig Thompson

#profound #inspirational

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#profound #prophetic #inspirational

What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#profound #life

It’s simple to love someone. But it’s hard to know when to say it out loud. ↗

— Rebecca Stead

#true #love

Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#art

Till this moment I never knew myself. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? ↗

— Euripides

#philosophical #profound #wisdom #death